Swing arm bush removal - SF

Work has got in the way this week and today was spent at the Liverpool University open day with my son so no time with the swinging arm again yet.

I'll take some pics when I get them out to show how I did it (with the forums help!).

Stuart

 
Thanks for the tip off. Bearings won't be a problem, I can get them free through work. I bought all the bearings I thought I would need when I started the project, taking the details from the 'Green Book'. I still need the shaft and spacer though if I go the bearing route.

Stuart
 
For the spacer I used the old spindle trimmed to the correct length.
I replaced bushes numerous times and the needle rollers have been in now for 15 years and have no discernible play. 
 
Tippie, if I reuse the spacer (shortened) and get the bearings what else will I need from Andy Wagner's emporium?

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Put the swinging arm back in the frame today to just confirm how bad I remembered the bushes being, I was right, there knackered.

Stuart
 
Stuart, when you buy needle bearings from Wolfgang he sells them with a flat spacer washer that's supposed to go between the bearing and the long spacer, and Andy Wagner dosn't show these. I don't know how important they are, quite frankly the bearings are so bloody tight in the swing arm I don't think any normally-occurring forces could move them, so the spacer washers are probably redundant. Anybody have any comments?

Ken
 
The washers are for positioning the spacer to ease assembly of the spindle, similar to the washers used in the wheels for the same purpose.  Bearing set with spacer, washers and thrust washers also available from OCT.

piet
 
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